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Track App Dependancy

deepak23shastri — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 02:12:49 GMT

Hi All,

I was wondering if someone could help me in indentifying a software/application that will help track the dependancy amongst multiple applications in the given app stack.

We have 30 + enterprise apps and they are all integrated (Both custom and native integration) and are in sync most of the times. We currently use Lucid charts to show a high leve data flow between systems. But this a manual task and not that easy to maintain when you too many integrations and automations to work with. Also, it doesn't allow you to show the relationship between applcations as in the objects mapped between applications.

Is there such application that will allow me to simple enter the source/destination apps and objects involved and it would render a visualization on its own? Also, it shoud be dynamic and easy to share amogst the team members.

Re: Track App Dependancy

brock-richard — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 02:15:12 GMT

Interested to see what others have to say about this

Re: Track App Dependancy

mroldanvega — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 02:50:42 GMT

Hi,

We have been looking for something like this for a while and haven't found anything yet.

We are actively looking. I am interest to see if anyone has found anything yet.

Re: Track App Dependancy

mbates — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 04:38:50 GMT

Deepak,

We use BiZZdesign, and enterprise architecture modeling tool, to model our data flow diagrams (level 0 and level 1) by application. The level 0 DFDs provide the basic flow relationships and allow for dynamic analysis of where applications and integrations are used across all models. While it is a manual effort to keep these models updated, they do have an integration with ServiceNow’s CMDB to help automate some of this (we are just now looking into that).

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Re: Track App Dependancy

gordonhuworkato — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 06:18:53 GMT

We looked at Neo4J before but didn’t implement it into prod

Re: Track App Dependancy

bram-verswalm — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:34:43 GMT

Take a look at LeanIX, they also have a good integration with LucidChart.

Re: Track App Dependancy

mroldanvega — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:36:28 GMT

Gordon Hu we are considering something like that with MS SQL Graph. Still early stages.

Re: Track App Dependancy

deepak23shastri — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 22:04:55 GMT

Re: Track App Dependancy

deepak23shastri — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 22:07:03 GMT

Thank you Bram. I will check this out.

Regards,

Deepak

Re: Track App Dependancy

brian-haskins — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 23:05:36 GMT

I have been dabbling with PLANTUML to Diagram as code to build the relationships between apps.

I looked at Ardoq which builds the relationship as well but didnt implement it.

Open-source tool that uses simple textual descriptions to draw beautiful UML diagrams. (plantuml.com)